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When Penny moves from her home in the village to a new house in the city she has to leave her friends and pet dog behind.
One day, after school, Penny finds a little puppy in the park. He is small and dirty and very frightened. Penny calls him Socks. But Penny

Tom Morgan was born and raised in Anaheim, California but moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, to escape the hustle and congestion of Southern California. Despite a good banking career and a regular golf game with friends, Tom sees his life becoming horribly mundane. Penny Baker is the epitome of an upbeat, positive Christian woman. She has a good job, a wonderful boyfriend, and lives close to the beach. After Tom's father suffers a heart attack, Tom must put his life on hold to fly home and be with his parents. What he doesn't anticipate is the Holy Spirit urging him to return home for good. Penny's heart is crushed when her boyfriend, Ethan, abandons their five-year relationship for a coveted career move. What Penny and Tom don't know is their lives will soon be intertwined in a heartbeat.
Through a mysterious series of connections, the perfect opportunity awaits Tom at the same bank Penny where happens to work. In The Trouble with Dimples Paul Garcia portrays the romance that sparks when the Lord uses a chance encounter with Tom to put Penny back on the path to emotional recovery. The turmoil of Penny's and Tom's lives finds solace in the encouragement each brings. This inspiring story of drama and romance will draw you in as Penny finds The Trouble with Dimples.

This book is a fresh, frenzied re-imagining of "The Odyssey" - and the debut of a major new literary talent. Very, very loosely based on "The Odyssey", "The Suitors" is a wildly inventive, painstakingly crafted little novel. Focusing less on the Odysseus character (renamed Payne) than on the Penelope character (now Penny), it follows the eyebrow-raising exploits of her much-maligned, ill-fated suitors. While Payne gallivants around, waging war and otherwise taking his time on the voyage home, Penny - stunning in her beauty while forever sullen in demeanour - finds herself surrounded by a motley crew ne'er-do-wells eager for nothing but her attention. She, however, cannot be bothered with anything but her memories of Payne. That is, until the mysterious arrival of a man whose origins no-one on the scene can quite divine. When Penny starts taking a shine to him, the tenuous calm on the home-front quickly starts to unravel. Set in an unforgettable landscape that is not quite suburban America but is nowhere else either, and at a time that is not quite now but neither the past nor the future still, the result is an exuberantly imaginative meditation on love and exile, memory and desire, violence and betrayal, and last but not least, compassion. Full of ideas but with never a dull moment, "The Suitors" heralds the debut of a major new literary talent.

London in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry ten-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to, and only a penny in your pocket to buy a piece of bread. But Oliver Twist finds some friends - Fagin, the Artful Dodger, and Charley Bates. They give him food and shelter, and play games with him, but it is not until some days later that Oliver finds out what kind of friends they are and what kind of

Somehow she'd always known that she would end like this. In a small square room, in a small square flat. In a small square box, perhaps. Cardboard, with a sticker on the outside. And a name ...In a freezing, desolate Edinburgh flat an old woman takes her last breath surrounded by the few objects she has accrued over a lifetime: an emerald dress, a brazil nut engraved with the ten commandments - and six orange pips sucked dry. Meanwhile, guided by the flip of a coin, Margaret Penny arrives back at her old family home, escaping a life in London recently turned to ash. Faced with relying on a resentful mother she has never really known, Margaret soon finds herself employed by the Office for Lost People, tasked with finding the families of the dead: the neglected, the abandoned, the lost. Her instructions are to uncover paperwork, yet the only thing Mrs Walker, the old woman in her current case, left behind is a series of peculiar objects.
But in the end it is these objects that will unravel Mrs Walker's real story: a story rooted in the London grime and moving from the 1930s to the present day, a story of children abandoned and lost, of beguiling sisters and misplaced mothers, of deception and thievery, family secrets and the very deepest of betrayals; in which the extraordinary circular nature of life will glitter from the page. For in uncovering the astonishing tale of an old woman who died alone, Margaret will finally discover her own story too ...